- Reaction score
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A bit of penance here.... When I was a young, green, foolish infanteer, I thought that anyone who wasn't on the sharp end was only to be tolerated - barely. By the end of my career, I learned that the military is a team, and all branches may have "bottom-one-percenters", but that the branch should not be judged by them.
Sent a care package to a NCE element member in K'Har who sometimes deals with those killed in combat, and got an e-mail back thanking me. Just wanted to share a snippet of that e-mail as a tribute to the professionalism of this and other NCE element folks:
"You were right when you say that from time to time my job can be emotionnally trying. This being said, I am not complaining. My work environment on the camp (most of the time) is a lot safer than the one our
infantry and other combat arms personnel live in outside the wire. Each time my staff and I do something for a soldier, we keep in mind that it might be the last time we see her/him and that we have to do it well."
Well done...
Sent a care package to a NCE element member in K'Har who sometimes deals with those killed in combat, and got an e-mail back thanking me. Just wanted to share a snippet of that e-mail as a tribute to the professionalism of this and other NCE element folks:
"You were right when you say that from time to time my job can be emotionnally trying. This being said, I am not complaining. My work environment on the camp (most of the time) is a lot safer than the one our
infantry and other combat arms personnel live in outside the wire. Each time my staff and I do something for a soldier, we keep in mind that it might be the last time we see her/him and that we have to do it well."
Well done...
